Today’s reading: Ezekiel 13-15.

If you’re like me, you expect the best from people. You expect them to be truthful. That has usually been my experience. But if we’re wise, we know that sometimes people, for different reasons, will lie or tell us things that are wrong. How can we discern the truth of what people say? Ezekiel gives us some pointers.

Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. They say, “The LORD declares,” when the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their words to be fulfilled. Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when you say, “The LORD declares,” though I have not spoken? Ezekiel 13:6-7

False prophets and mediums were busy spreading lies in the final days of Jerusalem. Their work was deadly because they gave false hope and misdirection. God condemned them and said they had no future in his…